Dear Edgerley Families and Friends,
Our fabulous term has culminated in a really fun week which has seen us exploring dinosaurs in our very own ‘Dino Land’, practising being school children, writing letters using Magic Sand and trying to trick each other whilst playing ‘Tricky Patterns.’ Tricky Patterns is a game we made up using bottle tops, beans and confetti. The aim of the partner game is to trick your partner by creating a pattern and making 1 mistake for your partner to find. It’s so much fun, but make sure you close your eyes while your partner is creating the pattern so it’s a real surprise!
But the MOST EXCITING part of the week was when we started to get letters back from the people we wrote to about our concerns for the Environment. Here are some of the highlights:
Julia Gillard wrote back to many of our children, "Thank you so much for all your lovely drawings. I am glad you decided to write to me because protecting the environment is a very important issue." She talked about what the Government is currently doing and then encouraged us with, "We need people like you to do their fair share to save energy and cut emissions." How fabulous!
Mr Tutt, our Headmaster, wrote back to Bruno about the smoke from Clipsal. Mr Tutt actually checked with the Bureau of Meteorology about the weather conditions and found out, "...that the smoke from the Clipsal 500 would not get to Africa as it is too far away. However, air that is much polluted from factories would be spread all over the world and could foul the air in Africa in the long term. I imagine that the lion would not be happy about that."
The Mead Room Children responded to Rayan's letter about recycling. Angus said, "We already recycle. We recycle paper." James W told Rayan, "At home I 'cycle bottles. The garbage truck collects them and takes them to the 'dump." The Mead Children were very pleased that Rayan was reminding them about recycling.
We hope we keep receiving responses back to our letters!
All the best,
Coney, Juliana and Katherine
